War of independence

• The War of Independence in Ireland took place from 1919 to 1921
• Reasons why we commemorate such events:

  To remember people and events from the past that have helped shape who we are today.
• The first dáil met in 1919, the day an IRA unit ambushed and killed 2 RIC men at soloheadbeg Co. Tipperary

  
  

  
  

  
  
• The IRA engaged in guerrilla war tactics which where about suprise attacks, they used ambushes and hit and run attacks to do the tactics

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
• Flying columns where trained to carry out ambushes
• David Lloyd George led the British government
• The black and tans consisted of ex-soldiers and they wore a mixture of a black and brown uniform
• The auxiliaries where ex-officers of the British army and received a higher pay rate than the black and tans
• The black and tans and auxiliaries often engaged in reprisals
• Michael Collins was the director of intelligence for the IRA.

  He established the 'squad' / 12 aposiles, a group of assassins that shot british spies
• Bloody Sunday 1920- Michael Colins's 'squad' killed 13 British spies, later that afternoon, the auxiliaries killed 14 unarmed civilians, including a player, Michael Hogan, during a Gaelic football match between Tipperary and Dublin in croke Park.
• The attack on the custom house- •This was the last major event of the war of Independence •the IRA occupied and then burned the custom house in Dublin in year 1921
• Consequences-

  •death and destruction

  •civil war began

  •republican movement was split